GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (11)

GULLIVER'S TRAVELS (11)

" You may have seen, " he said, " that some of us wear high heels and some wear low heels on our shoes.

The emperor will let only people wearing  low heels work for him, and those who like high heels feel that this is wrong.
Because of this there are many quarrels among the Lilliputians.

Then he told me of a much bigger danger that was about to befall his country.

" There ia an island close by called Blefuscu, and the people there are going to attack us. " 

" Why ? " I asked him.

" It all began long ago, " he replied.
" When our emperor's great-grandfather was a little boy, he cut his finger one morning as he took the top off his egg.

Up till then everyone had cut off the big end of the egg.

After that, however, the ruler of those times said that everyone must cut off the small end, and those who would not obey had to leave Lilliput.

They went to the island of Blwfuscu and called themselves  the Big-Endians.

Now they are coming to make war on Lilliput, and the emperor wants you to help us. " 

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